Leo Greenfield, on September 6, filed a permit application for construction of a 41-unit, 22,706-square-foot building at 375 Lefferts Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn. These are the third new building plans filed in the neighborhood so far this year. Perhaps more significantly, these are the most residential units filed for in the neighborhood since at least the start of 2018. The plans call for…
The Shefa School, on September 3, filed plans for a $13.3 million project which aims to convert a business school and office building to a primary and middle school at 17 West 60th Street in Lincoln Square, Manhattan. The plans also call for a slight vertical enlargement of the building, in addition to the change in use. The Shefa School, a Jewish day school which…
Hackman Capital Partners, on September 2, filed permit applications for the demolition of three buildings at 32-05 Greenpoint Avenue, 32-11 Greenpoint Avenue, and 52-29 35th Street in Long Island City, Queens. The developer purchased the properties in a transaction which included seven total parcels, which have a total buildable of 19,992 square feet, for $5.3 million form Joseph Lazo in May of this year, according…
Heritage Realty Services, on September 2, filed plans for a $7.2 million project that aims to convert retail space to office space on two floors at the office condominium located at 420 Fifth Avenue in the Garment District, Manhattan. Rockefeller Foundation owns five floors in the building. They occupied the space in the early 1990s, before exercising an option to buy the floors by paying…
By Atticus O’Brien-Pappalardo A Brooklyn City council member and a longtime landmark preservation activist added their voices to complaints about the Department of Buildings DOB NOW: Build platform and DOB’s Open Data information. DOB NOW, which has been around for several years but became the main interface for new filings in March 2021, is “incomplete” and “complicated”, according to Brooklyn city council member Stephen Levin….
Arshad Jamal through the company Accentors LLC, on September 1, filed a permit application for construction of a 25-unit, 28,505-square-foot mixed-use building at 172-10 Jamaica Avenue in Jamaica, Queens. There have been 35 new building plans filed in the neighborhood so far this year. Of those 35 plans, seven, including these plans, have been multifamily residential buildings. The plans call for the construction of an…
Madison Capital, on September 1, filed two permit applications for the demolition of industrial buildings at 688 Court Street and 702 Court Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn. These are the first demolition plans filed in the neighborhood this year. The developer has not filed new building plans yet, since acquiring the properties for $45 million on May 27, 2021. At the time of the purchase,…
A&R Properties Group, on August 30, was given a permit for construction of a 94-unit, 74,405-square-foot mixed-use building at 71-82 Parsons Boulevard in Flushing, Queens. Joshua Asherian, managing director of development and acquisitions at A&R, filed the plans. The plans, pre-filed on January 27, 2021, call for the construction of an 82-foot tall, eight-story mixed-use building. There have been 55 new building plans filed in…
Hampshire Properties, on August 27, was given a permit for construction of a 59-unit, 51,111-square-foot residential building at 2343 Nostrand Avenue in East Flatbush. Robert Rosenthal, founder of the firm, filed the plans. The project is one of nine plans filed since the start of 2019 that call for the construction of a building 20,000 square feet or greater in size in East Flatbush. Of…
Arjan Gjushi, on August 30, was given a permit for construction of a 59-unit, 43,411-square-foot residential building at 1591 Jesup Avenue in Highbridge, the Bronx. The plans, pre-filed on November 6, 2020, call for the construction of a 64-foot tall, eight-story, residential building. There have been 14 new building plans filed in the neighborhood so far this year. Since the start of 2020 there have…
ParkIt Management, on August 31, filed plans for a $3.2 million project which aims to convert a parking garage to a school building at 528 West 162nd Street in Washington Heights, Manhattan. Gary Spindler filed the plans. The project will increase the building’s size by 25,548-square-feet. The plans call for the increase in size of the building from a 44-foot tall, three-story building to a…
Morgan Stanley, on August 31, filed plans for a $4.3 million project to modify the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system on one floor of their headquarters building at 1585 Broadway in Times Square, Manhattan. The plans call for work on the third floor of the building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number M00534577. The project is…
Davis Companies, on August 30, filed a permit application for construction of a 123-unit, 199,736-square-foot mixed-use building at 570 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn. Stephen Skolas, VP of development at the firm, filed the plans. Slate Property Group purchased the site for $22.9 million on September 18, 2015. In 2018, reports circulated that the developer was planning to construct a 40-story residential building at the…
Davean Holdings, on August 30, filed a permit application for construction of a 17-unit, 19,825-square-foot mixed-use building at 126 Pearl Street in the Financial District of Manhattan. David Lloyd, who founded the firm back in 2017 along with Sean Lefkovits, filed the plans. The scope of work indicates the building will have 17 dwelling units, however, the zoning information states there will only be 10….
1504 1596 Ave L LLC, on August 30, filed a permit application for construction of a 14,968-square-foot building at 1504 Avenue L in Midwood, Brooklyn. Abraham Bergman filed the plans. Eastern Union is a mortgage brokerage who is not typically known for developing buildings. These are the eighth new building plans filed in the neighborhood this year. Since the start of 2020 this is the…
Vadem Brodsky, on August 30, filed a permit application for construction of a 25-unit, 17,706-square-foot mixed-use building at 1206 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. These are the third, and largest, new building plans filed in the neighborhood so far this year. The neighborhood has experienced a drop-off in new development this year, after 17 new building plans were filed in 2020. The plans call…
JEMB Realty Corporation, on August 30, filed plans for a $3.3 million fit-out of several floors for a school at an under-construction office building, known as One Willoughby Square, at 424 Albee Square in Downtown Brooklyn. In September of 2017, the developer filed plans for the construction of a 495-foot tall, 35-story, 387,801-square-foot mixed-use office building at the site. According to the plans, the building…
On August 30, plans were filed for a $2 million exterior rehabilitation of a hotel building, known as Lotte New York Palace, at 455 Madison Avenue in the Plaza District, Manhattan. There were over $7 million of alteration plans filed at hotels throughout the city in August, the third most of any month so far this year. The highest monthly total came in February, when…
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RedSky Capital, JZ Capital, and Witkoff, on August 26, filed a permit application for construction of a 592-unit, 597,824-square-foot building at 589 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn. Craig Murphy of Witkoff filed the plans. RedSky Capital and JZ Capital Partners started acquiring a 36,290-square-foot assemblage at 547-557 and 559-589 Fulton Street back in 2012, spending over $100 million to put the site together. Last year,…
